I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use—silence, exile, and cunning.

The artist must be free, even from himself.

The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail.

所有的写作都是自传。

Neither power nor wealth, only the scepters of art endure.

Sun don't shine forever, but as long as it's here then we might as well shine together.